Gay In Maryland

There's the former model and "Bond Girl" who was designated a boy at birth. There's the combat-tested, super-muscular Army sergeant who was designated a girl. And a poet who says, "I think gender can actually change every single day. Myself is many selves." These are some of the people featured...

Gay Matters

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center of Baltimore and Central Maryland announced Friday it will move from its long-time home in Mount Vernon to Charles Village. The center will take over the third floor of 2530 North Charles Street, which will provide a larger, upgraded space...

Traffic modifications will be in effect for the annual Pride Parade and Festival on Saturday, July 23, 2016. The parade kicks off in Mt. Vernon from Charles and Madison streets at 2:00 p.m. Participants will go north on Charles Street and end at Chase Street.In preparation for the parade, the...

Equality Maryland and FreeState Legal announced Thursday their previous merger will form FreeState Justice. Hundreds of people attended the announcement at the Baltimore Museum of Industry. Steve Klepper, attorney at Kramon & Graham, said the night was "celebratory, but with a real sense of how...

More than 130 members of Congress, including several from Maryland, joined with progressive and gay rights advocacy groups to call on federal regulators Tuesday to lift a requirement that gay and bisexual men remain celibate for a year before donating blood.They signed letters urging the Food and...

More LGBTQ News

"Why is it news when a gay or lesbian athlete reveals his or her sexual orientation?" "Why can't we just move past this issue?" "It's 2016 after all, and gay marriage is legal." This was just a sample of the reaction I saw to the news that Chicago Sky forward Elena Delle Donne is no longer hiding...

In the 41 years since the first iteration of Baltimore Pride, the LGBT community has made progress for equality nationwide. But some 41 days before this year's annual festival, a tragedy was a stark reminder of the struggles that still remain. After a gunman who pledged allegiance to the Islamic...

Retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon and former GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson said Tuesday that being transgender "doesn't make any sense" and equated gender identity with ethnicity. "For someone to wake up and think that they belong to a different sex because they feel different that day...

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, had a heated exchange with a protestor Tuesday at a business near the Pulse nightclub shooting scene, which included the accusation that Rubio has “blood on your hands.” David Moran of Orlando joined press at the event, which was supposed to be focused on how Rubio...

Saying it's the right thing to do, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday that transgender people will be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces. "Americans who want to serve and can meet our standards should be afforded...

Alexandra Marberry should have gone to flight school in October, but the 2015 Naval Academy graduate never made it to Pensacola, Florida. Instead, the 23-year-old aspiring aviator works as an administrative assistant in a windlowless office at the academy — in a male uniform. Marberry is transgender....

Entertainment

The baristas and cashiers at Ground & Griddled, the breakfast stall at the new R. House food hall, are the only ones who know the names of the shop's discounted coffee-and-sandwich combos. And owner Dave Sherman wants to keep it that way — for now. Sherman is among the local restaurateurs taking...

Over the years, Tony Foreman and Cindy Wolf have created some spectacular restaurants from scratch — Charleston, Petit Louis and Cinghiale, to name a few. For their latest venture, they refashioned one of their showcase places, Pazo in Harbor East, into a sexy Argentine restaurant called Bar Vasquez....

Those who anticipate Christmas and its promised mounds of presents as if it were the most important, incredible, life-changing day of the year — or those who can still remember being that young and innocent — should find it worthwhile visiting the Hippodrome Theatre this weekend. That's where "A...